Re^2: Writing the output of test::more in to another file

thanks that worked.

In 'perl test.pl > foo.txt 2>&1'

What "2>&1" is for? thanks

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Re^3: Writing the output of test::more in to another file by arkturuz (Curate) on Mar 06, 2008 at 13:54 UTC
You can read more about that in Bash Guide for Beginners, chapter 9. Here's a quote from that document that explains "1" and "2": Each open file gets assigned a file descriptor. The file descriptors for stdin, stdout, and stderr are 0, 1, and 2, respectively. So "2>&1" means: redirect stderr to stdout. See more examples in the guide.	[reply]